Abstract: A rotor for an electromagnetic machine and a method of assembling the rotor are provided. In one embodiment, the rotor includes a lamination stack disposed about a rotational axis a plurality of conductor bars disposed within corresponding slots formed in the lamination stack and extending beyond the longitudinal ends of the lamination stack. End rings are positioned at either end of the lamination stack and define a plurality of openings configured to receive the ends of the conductor bars. Each end ring includes separate inner and outer concentric rings. The inner and outer rings define radially outer and inner surfaces configured to about one another and each of the concentric rings defines a portion of each conductor bar opening in the end ring.

Abstract: A cage rotor for an electric machine, has a laminated rotor core having a groove, a rotor end ring that is cast on to one axial end of the laminated core and has a first material and a bar situated in the groove and supported by a deformable bearing having a bearing device. A laminated rotor core for a cage rotor includes a groove and a bearing device, an electric machine with a cage rotor, a method for producing a laminated rotor core by producing a bearing device on the laminated rotor core, and a method for producing a cage rotor by supporting a bar in a groove by a deformable bearing having a bearing device.

Abstract: A hybrid induction motor includes a fixed stator, an independently rotating outer rotor, and an inner rotor fixed to a motor shaft. The outer rotor is designed to have a low moment of inertia and includes angularly spaced apart first bars and permanent magnets on an inner surface of the outer rotor. The inner rotor includes angularly spaced apart second bars and interior flux barriers aligned with the second bars. The outer rotor is initially accelerated by cooperation of a rotating stator magnetic field with the first bars. As the outer rotor accelerates towards synchronous RPM, a rotating magnetic field of the permanent magnets cooperate with the second bars of the inner rotor to accelerate the inner rotor. At near synchronous speed the rotating stator magnetic field reaches through the outer rotor and into the inner rotor coupling the two rotors for efficient permanent magnet operation.

Abstract: Described herein is a motor including a stationary section and a rotating section. The stationary section includes a stator core having a plurality of teeth, and a coil constituted by a conducting wire wound around each of the plurality of teeth. The rotating section has a plurality of magnets arranged in a circumferential direction, a rotor core which is in contact with the magnets, a magnet holder which is fixed to the rotor core, and an annular plate. The lower surface of the annular plate faces the upper surface of the magnets. Further, the annular plate is fixed to the rotor core and the magnet holder. Employing this structure enables the annular plate to further prevent an upward position shift of the magnets.

Abstract: A rotor for an asynchronous machine has a laminated core and a short-circuit cage at least partially integrated in the laminated core. The short-circuit cage is designed with rods having or consisting of a first electrically conductive material and short-circuit rings having or consisting of a second electrically conductive material. At least one of the short-circuit rings is designed with a support ring, and each support ring is designed as a structure interlockingly and/or integrally cast onto or into the associated short-circuit ring.

Abstract: A motor rotator includes: a rotor shaft configured to be journaled to a pair of bearing members of a motor device; and a rotor stack that includes a plurality of lamination plates and a plurality of small-diameter plates having an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the lamination plates, the lamination plates and the small-diameter plates being stacked in an axial direction of the rotor shaft and integrated. The plurality of small-diameter plates forms a pair of bosses, the pair of bosses projecting from both sides of the plurality of lamination plates along the axial direction of the rotor shaft to abut on the pair of bearing members.

Abstract: The invention relates to a short-circuiting ring for an electric machine, comprising a single-piece serpentine ring member (7) made of a single-piece strip material. The invention also relates to a rotor for an electric machine.

Abstract: A rotor is connected to a shaft member and rotates about a central axis. The rotor includes a shaft hole having at least part of the shaft member disposed therein; and flow paths disposed around the shaft member and penetrating the rotor in a direction parallel with the central axis. Each flow path has a first surface facing outward in the radial direction; a second surface disposed outward of the first surface in the radial direction and facing the first surface; a third surface connecting the first and second surfaces at one end in a rotational direction about the central axis; a fourth surface connecting the first and second surfaces at the other end in the rotational direction. The condition C<D is satisfied, where C is the distance between both ends of the first surface, and D is the distance between both ends of the second surface.

Abstract: A rotor for a high-speed, high-power electric motor includes, according to the rotor axis, a magnetic mass surrounded on both sides by short-circuit rings, and crossed at several notches by electrical conductors connecting the short-circuit rings to form a squirrel cage. Each electrical conductor is formed of a single bar having a trapezoidal section over its entire length.

Abstract: A blending appliance includes a housing with a jar receiving area defined between an upper housing and a support base. A blender jar includes a base portion and a receptacle portion, and is configured to be laterally received within the jar receiving area of the housing. A magnetic coupling system includes an upper magnetic coupler disposed in the base portion of the blender jar and a lower magnetic coupler disposed in the support base of the housing. The upper and lower magnetic couplers are magnetically coupled to one another for driving a blade assembly disposed in the receptacle portion of the blender jar. A brake mechanism is disposed on the upper magnetic coupler and is configured to stop rotation of the upper magnetic coupler when the blender jar is removed from the jar receiving area.

Abstract: A rotor of an electric motor including a rotor core, two conductive end plates, a plurality of conductors and a casting metal is provided. The rotor core has a central hole and a plurality of slots surrounding the central hole at a predetermined interval. The two conductive end plates, disposed at two ends of the rotor core, have a plurality of fixing structures, respectively. A plurality of cavities is disposed between two neighboring fixing structures and the shape and the positions of the cavities correspond to that of the slots. The conductors are shaped as long bars and penetrate the slots. Two ends of the conductors are fixed by the fixing structures. The casting metal is injected into the cavities and the slots, and further covers the peripheral of the conductors and the fixing structures, two ends of the rotor core and outside of the two conductive end plates.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric machine having a stator, a rotor and an inverter arranged in an inverter housing. The rotor is rotatably mounted about a rotational axis with its rotor axis in a first end shield and in a second end shield. The second end shield is arranged in or on the inverter housing. At least one suction opening and at least one blowing opening are arranged on the radial periphery of the second end shield. At least two cooling fins are provided on the second end shield, a baffle is arranged between the cooling fins of the second end shield and the stator and the rotor which is arranged in the stator, such that a cooling medium flowing radially through the at least one suction opening is guided to the at least one blowing opening.

Abstract: A rotor having a number of tangentially magnetized permanent magnets tangentially evenly distributed and arranged both in the center region and in the outer regions in the axial direction is disclosed. Flux-guiding elements between the permanent magnets guide the magnetic fields of the permanent magnets radially toward the center region of the stator. The flux-guiding elements comprise a plurality of sheets stacked on one another in the axial direction. The sheets in the outer regions are smaller than the sheets in the center region. The sheets arranged in the outer regions are surrounded on their radially outside end by a retaining apparatus. Form-fitting elements transmit centrifugal forces acting on the sheets arranged in the center region are transmitted to the sheets arranged in the outer regions.

Abstract: An electric rotary machine includes a stator, which Is fixed to a housing, composed of a stator core having a coil end protruding at an end face of the stator core, a rotor core formed by laminating core sheets, and a rotor having a pair of rotor side-plates sandwiching both end faces of the rotor core. The rotor core is rotatably supported in the housing facing an inner peripheral surface of the stator with a gap between the rotor core and the stator. Either one or both of the rotor side-plates has a concave surface in an outer surface of the side-plate that does not abut the rotor core. An axial distance from the end face of the rotor core to the concave surface increases from an inner diameter side to an outer diameter side.

Abstract: A refrigerant compressor (100) includes: a sealed vessel (103); a compression mechanism (101) that sucks refrigerant, sucked in the sealed vessel (103), for compression; a motor (102) that drives the compression mechanism (101); a suction pipe (104) for sucking the refrigerant into the sealed vessel (103) when sucking the refrigerant; a cover (117a) arranged to face an outlet of the suction pipe (104), to force the refrigerant sucked through the suction pipe (104) to collide against the cover for gas-liquid separation, and to allow liquid refrigerant from the separation to drop on a coil (126) of the motor (102); and a suction passage (118) that introduces gas refrigerant from the gas-liquid separation, for which the refrigerant sucked through the suction pipe is forced to collide against the cover (117a), to an inlet of the compression chamber provided in the compression mechanism (101).

Abstract: A rotor casting includes a lamination stack and a cast structure including proximal and distal cast end rings respectively adjacent proximal and distal end faces of the lamination stack. Cast axial ribs are distributed radially on a peripheral surface of the lamination stack and extend between the proximal and distal cast end rings. Cast feed members extend axially from the proximal cast end ring and are respectively positioned radially between an adjacent pair of axial ribs. In one example, cast bar segments integral to the proximal and distal cast end rings are formed in axial slots of the lamination stack. In one example, a bar insert in each axial slot has insert ends that extend respectively from the proximal and distal end faces of the lamination stack and are fully encapsulated respectively in the proximal and distal cast end rings. A method of forming the rotor casting is provided.

Abstract: A cage rotor of a rotary asynchronous machine includes an axially laminated core having substantially axially extending grooves, at least one electrical conductor disposed in the grooves and composed of at least of two partial conductors constructed from materials having different electrical conductivities and different mechanical strengths, wherein the partial conductor made of the higher-strength material is disposed radially farther outwardly at least in sections of the groove, as viewed along the axial extent of the respective, and a short-circuit ring arranged on a respective end face side of the laminated core and electrically-conductively interconnecting the electrical conductors that are disposed in the respective grooves and protrude axially from the laminated core.

Abstract: A rotor capable of fixing a balancer weight by an easier method. The rotor includes a shaft; a core having a core hole penetrating the core in an axial direction; a rod configured to be inserted into the core hole so as to protrude from one end surface of the core in the axial direction to the one side in the axial direction; a balancer weight having a weight hole and placed on the end surface with the rod inserted into the weight hole; and a fixing member having a fixing hole and coming into contact with the balancer weight from the one side in the axial direction with the rod inserted into the fixing hole to fix the balancer weight by sandwiching the balancer weight with the end surface.

Abstract: A method of in situ formation of an aluminum carbon nanotube composite material and an induction motor component produced with such composite. The method includes forming an aluminum-based matrix by mixing a catalyst precursor with an aluminum powder such that a colloidal compound is formed that is subsequently sintered to leave a catalytically-active material formed on the surface of the aluminum powder. A carbon-containing gas is introduced to the composite catalyst that includes aluminum and the catalytic metal so that carbon nanotube reinforcements are grown on the aluminum-based matrix with the assistance of the catalytically-active metal. Additional mechanical processing steps may also include pressurizing, sintering and cold-rolling the aluminum carbon nanotube composite material.

Abstract: A rotor casting includes a lamination stack and a cast structure including proximal and distal cast end rings respectively adjacent proximal and distal end faces of the lamination stack. Cast axial ribs are distributed radially on a peripheral surface of the lamination stack and extend between the proximal and distal cast end rings. Cast feed members extend axially from the proximal cast end ring and are respectively positioned radially between an adjacent pair of axial ribs. In one example, cast bar segments integral to the proximal and distal cast end rings are formed in axial slots of the lamination stack. In one example, a bar insert in each axial slot has insert ends that extend respectively from the proximal and distal end faces of the lamination stack and are fully encapsulated respectively in the proximal and distal cast end rings. A method of forming the rotor casting is provided.

Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a rotor assembly for an electric motor which utilizes pre-fabricated conductive rotor bars and die cast end rings. Containment rings, which may be installed on the end rings either before or after casting, may be used to inhibit end ring creep at high rotational speeds.

Abstract: A rotor comprises a rotor core comprising a rotational axis and a plurality of slots, a plurality of rotor bars inserted in the plurality of slots, and a plurality of holders arranged around a rotational axis of the rotor. Each holder comprises an insertion groove configured to receive and engage with an end of one of the plurality of rotor bars. An end of another rotor bar among the plurality of rotor bars is interposed between and coupled to two immediately neighboring holders among the plurality of holders.

Abstract: An electric motor for high speed operation use and a rotor which enables use of common parts with electric motors for low speed operation use and which thereby enables reduction of the manufacturing costs. The rotor is provided with a shaft, a rotor core which is fastened to the shaft at the outside in the radial direction and has a first end face at one end in the axial direction and a second end face at the other end in the axial direction, a plurality of conductors which are arranged at the rotor core, and a pair of end rings which are respectively arranged adjoining the first end face and the second end face and which short-circuit the plurality of conductors with each other. The shaft has an outer circumference, while the end rings have outer circumferences which are arranged concentrically with respect to the outer circumference of the shaft.

Abstract: A squirrel-cage rotor manufacturing method capable of suppressing, at the time of performing die-casting, formation of gaps between closing portions and a rotor core at radially outer parts of rotor slots, or generation of a thermal stress in the rotor core as a result of expansion of the closing portions. The squirrel-cage rotor manufacturing method includes: arranging, through die-casting, conductors into rotor slots that are formed along a radially outer part of a rotor core; and performing the die-casting under a state in which radially outer parts of the rotor slots are closed with closing portions made of the same material as a material of the rotor core.

Abstract: A motor assembly with an integrated cooling system is provided in which a coolant (e.g., oil) is injected into a hollow region of the rotor shaft. The coolant is expelled out of the rotor shaft and into the motor enclosure via multiple thru-holes, thereby allowing efficient cooling of both the stator and the rotor assemblies.

Abstract: There is provided an open-type induction motor, and more particularly, to an open type induction motor in which a rotor has a structure allowing air to flow therein, thus enhancing cooling efficiency of the rotor and a stator. The open-type induction motor includes: a stator including an iron stator core having a radial duct hole and a stator coil wound around the iron stator core; and a rotor disposed in a hollow of the stator so as to be rotatable by magnetism generated by the stator coil, and including a rotational shaft, a plurality of iron rotor cores stacked in an axial direction of the rotational shaft and coupled to the rotational shaft, a rotor coil coupled to the plurality of iron rotor cores, and duct plates stacked between the plurality of iron rotor cores and outwardly discharging air present at the inner side of the iron rotor cores.

Abstract: A rotor with a two-step shaped slot may include a rotor core configured to include a plurality of shoe structures which have a two-step shaped slot, a plurality of rotor bars configured to be inserted into and coupled to the two-step shaped slot, and end rings configured to be coupled to both ends of the rotor core and to fix the rotor bars.

Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine includes a rotor lamination stack connected to a rotor shaft for conjoint rotation therewith. The rotor lamination stack extends from a first axial face of the rotor lamination stack to a second axial face when viewed in the direction of an axis of rotation of the rotor lamination stack. The rotor lamination stack has bores distributed around the axis of rotation and extending from the first axial face to the second axial face. A tie rod which protrudes from the axial faces when viewed in the direction of the axis of rotation is inserted into each bore. Fastening elements are attached to the tied rods at both axial faces so that the rotor laminations of the rotor lamination stack are pressed together. A fan is attached to the tie rods on the first axial face of the rotor lamination stack.

Abstract: A core for an electrical machine includes a core body. The core body extends long a rotation axis and includes two or more core segments axially stacked with one another along the rotation axis. A plurality of the core segments define notches that are axially-aligned to one another and form an axial slot. The first core segment notch has an area that is greater than an area of a second core segment notch to accommodate thermal expansion of the core.

Abstract: An electrically rotating machine, includes a rotor and a stator, the rotor and/or the stator including a laminated core, with an air gap being formed between the rotor and the stator, said rotor having axially and radially extending cooling paths in flow communication with each other and in flow communication with radially extending cooling paths of the stator via the air gap, wherein the radially extending cooling paths of the stator are respectively axially aligned with the radially extending cooling paths of the rotor; at least one fan for conducting an air flow through the axially and radially extending cooling paths of the rotor, the air gap and the cooling paths of the stator, wherein the air gap has at least one constriction defined by sheets of the laminated core of the rotor having an outer radius greater than remaining ones of the sheets of the laminated core of the rotor and/or by sheets of the laminated core of the stator having a smaller inner radius than remaining ones of the sheets of the lamin

Abstract: A motor cooling system for a simply supported compressor includes a rotor shaft 24 having a first end 26 and a second end 28. The rotor shaft 24 includes an axial bore 60 and a plurality of shaft radial holes 64 extending from a first end of the axial bore 60, wherein a cooling medium is supplied to the axial bore 60. The cooling system further includes a rotor 22 coupled to the rotor shaft 24 and having a plurality of rotor axial holes 25 and a plurality of rotor radial holes 27. The plurality of rotor radial holes 27 extends from the plurality of rotor axial holes 25. A refrigerant dam 70 is arranged adjacent a first end of the rotor 22 and includes a plurality of dam axial holes 74 fluidly coupled to an interior cavity 72. The dam axial holes 74 align with the rotor axial holes 25 and the interior cavity 72 aligns with the shaft radial holes 64 to form a flow path between the rotor shaft 24 and the rotor 22.

Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a plurality of lamination sheets. Each of the lamination sheets defines an aperture. The lamination sheets are disposed adjacent each other to define a laminated stack. The apertures are aligned with each other to define a slot extending parallel with a central axis of the laminated stack. A magnet is disposed within the slot. The lamination sheets include a group of recess lamination sheets and a tab lamination sheet. The tab lamination sheet includes a tab that extends into the slot, and into abutting engagement with the magnet to bias the magnet against a wall of the slot. The apertures of the group of recess lamination sheets include a groove portion that defines a groove. The tab of the tab lamination sheet is at least partially disposed within the groove defined by the recess lamination sheets.

Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine includes a rotor lamination stack connected to a rotor shaft for conjoint rotation therewith. The rotor lamination stack extends from a first axial face of the rotor lamination stack to a second axial face when viewed in the direction of an axis of rotation of the rotor lamination stack. The rotor lamination stack has bores distributed around the axis of rotation and extending from the first axial face to the second axial face when viewed in the direction of the axis of rotation. A tie rod which protrudes from the axial faces when viewed in the direction of the axis of rotation is inserted into each bore. Fastening elements are attached to the tied rods at both axial faces so that the rotor laminations of the rotor lamination stack are pressed together. The tie rods are cast in the bores by a casting material.

Abstract: A rotor of an internal permanent magnet synchronous motor including a rotor core, a plurality of slots formed in the rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets housed in the plurality of slots. Each of the slots includes a holding part formed between a first outside diameter surface and a first inside diameter surface to hold each of the permanent magnets, and an opening part formed at both sides of the holding part and formed by a second outside diameter surface, a second inside diameter surface and a connecting surface connecting them. The second outside diameter surface is formed to a curved shape so that a distance to an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core in the diametrical direction gradually becomes smaller from both ends of the second outside diameter surface to an intermediate part in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A rotor includes a stacked core having a plurality of slots formed on an inner side thereof, a plurality of rotor bars inserted in the plurality of slots, a pair of end rings assembled and fastened to opposite ends of the rotor bars, a pair of retainers fastened to opposite outer end surfaces of the rotor bars in an assembled and fastened manner, and a shaft inserted into the pair of end rings.

Abstract: A cage rotor for an synchronous machine includes a laminated rotor core, shorting bars arranged inside the laminated rotor core, shorting rings which are cast onto the laminated rotor core and which electrically interconnect the shorting bars to front sides of the laminated rotor core, and heat pipes introduced into the laminated rotor core in the axial direction such that they protrude onto the front side from the laminated rotor core and protrude into the shorting rings.

Abstract: A brushless starter generator includes a wound field generator having a rotor that includes a damper winding, wherein the damper winding includes a plurality of poles. Also included is at least one pole face disposed within each of the plurality of poles, wherein the at least one pole face comprises a slot opening. Further included is at least one damper bar relatively entirely filling the slot opening.

Abstract: An interface for transmitting electrical power to a motor of a motor-compressor is provided. The interface may include a receptacle having a first end portion coupled with a stator of the motor and a second end portion defining a hole at least partially extending therethrough. The interface may also include a plug configured to be detachably coupled with the receptacle. The plug may include a rigid, conductive rod having a first end portion configured to be coupled with a penetrator of the motor-compressor, and a second end portion configured to be at least partially disposed in the hole of the receptacle and detachably coupled therewith. The rigid, conductive rod may be configured to electrically couple the penetrator with the receptacle, and the receptacle may be configured to transmit the electrical power to the stator.

Abstract: A mixing container has a wall enclosing a mixing volume, an anchor fixed at the wall of the mixing container inside the mixing volume, and at least one mixing plate movably mounted to the anchor to allow a relative movement of the at least one mixing plate along a stir direction perpendicular to the extension of the mixing plate. Each of the at least one mixing plates is provided with at least one magnet.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes an annular stator, a plurality of coils, a case, a side cover, a refrigerant passage, supply ports, and a strainer. The annular stator has an axis. The plurality of coils are provided about the axis. The case houses the stator. The side cover is disposed at one axial end of the case so as to face the stator in an axial direction along the axis. The refrigerant passage is provided in the side cover along a circumferential direction. The supply ports supply refrigerant from the refrigerant passage toward axial ends of the plurality of coils. The strainer is provided inside the refrigerant passage to be erected so as to intersect with the axis. The strainer has a plate-shaped member including holes to trap foreign matter in the refrigerant while the refrigerant passes through the holes.

Abstract: A method of forming a rotor, wherein the rotor includes a plurality of conductor bars each joined to a shorting ring, includes disposing an end of each of the plurality of conductor bars within a respective one of a plurality of cavities defined by the shorting ring. The method also includes, after disposing, deforming the end of each of the conductor bars, and brazing the end of each of the conductor bars to the shorting ring to form the rotor. A rotor includes a shorting ring defining a plurality of cavities therein each having a shape, a plurality of conductor bars each having an end disposed within a respective one of the cavities and joined to the shorting ring, wherein the end is deformable to the shape, and a braze material disposed in contact with the end of each of the conductor bars within a respective one of the cavities.

Abstract: An electric motor is configured with a stator core assembly that includes a stator core having a plurality of winding slots. A plurality of stator windings pass through the plurality of winding slots that include slot liners configured to provide electrostatic shields surrounding the plurality of stator windings. The electrostatic shields are referenced to an electrical location to reduce common mode currents associated with the electric motor.

Abstract: In an induction motor, when dimensions of respective elements of a rotor slot are defined as TB: a shortest distance between a center side of an inner circumferential slot and an outer circumference of the rotor; TC: a circumferential width of an innermost circumference of an outer circumferential slot; TD: a circumferential width of an outermost circumference of the inner circumference slot; and TE: a shortest distance between an end side of the inner circumferential slot and the outer circumference of the rotor, and when dimensions of respective elements of a stator iron core are defined as TF: a width of teeth; TG: a width of a teeth tip end; and TH: a width of a slot opening part, the dimensions of the respective elements of the rotor slot and the dimensions of the respective elements of the stator iron core satisfy the following relationships: TF/(TG+TH)×TD/2?TB?TD/2; and TF/(TG+TH)×TD/2?TE?TD/2.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a rotor for an induction motor includes disposing a first flux material on a plurality of first exposed ends of a respective plurality of conductor bars of a rotor core. A second flux material is disposed on a first end face of the rotor core. A first portion of a conductive material is cast over the plurality of first exposed ends to form a first shorting end ring to electrically and mechanically connect the plurality of conductor bars.

Abstract: An induction rotor includes a rotor core having an axial end surface, an end ring proximate the axial end surface that provides electrical communication between respective ends of conductor bars extending through the rotor core, and an end ring support structure that includes a ring member at least partially embedded in the end ring. An end ring support structure may have at least one axially extending member coupled with the ring member, such axially extending member projecting axially inwardly of the axial end surface and engaging the rotor core. An end ring support structure may include a ring member having an axially extending portion embedded in the end ring between radially inner and outer surfaces of the end ring whereby the end ring includes an outer portion, radially outwardly of the axially extending portion, and an inner portion disposed radially inwardly of the axially extending portion of the ring member.

Abstract: A squirrel-cage rotor and a production method thereof, the rotor having conductors with sufficient strength. In the invention, conductor particles are sprayed onto a core and/or conductive bars in a solid-state. As a result, in the coating material, the enlargement of the crystal grain of the conductors is significantly restricted, whereby conductive end rings are connected to the core and/or the conductive bars. Since conductor particles do not melt, a gap formed by thermal contraction when the conductor melts between different kinds of members is prevented from being formed. Therefore, the deterioration of the conductor may be limited, and the conductor may have sufficient strength. The reliability of the rotor is improved.

Abstract: A rotor (10) of a buried magnet-type electric motor, wherein the magnetic poles thereof are each constituted by two rows of magnets (M1, M2) of the same pole, wherein a core portion (12) between magnet slots of the same pole is arranged between the magnet slots (31, 32) in which the two rows of magnets are arranged, and wherein, of the edges constituting said magnet slots, the portions connecting the edges (31a, 32a) on the inner side in the radial direction to the outer edges of the core portion between the magnet slots of the same pole, have curved portions (41, 42) that connect a curve of a small curvature to a curve of a large curvature starting from the edges on the inner side in the radial direction and heading toward the outer edges of the core portion between the magnet slots of the same pole.

Abstract: An induction rotor assembly having an induction cage that is formed using a combination of liquid and solid materials. The first and second end plates of the induction cage may be fabricated before the casting of the conductors of the induction cage. According to certain embodiments, the first and second end plates may be assembled with first and second molds and a rotor core to form a casting assembly. A liquid casting material may be injected into the casting assembly, wherein the liquid casting material may solidify within one or more core passageways of the rotor core, thereby forming the conductors of the induction cage. The first and second end plates may also include flow channels that may be configured to facilitate the flow of the liquid casting material in the casting assembly, and increase the area of contact between the liquid casting material, when solidified, and the end plates.

Abstract: Induction motors may have a rotor that includes a shaft and a plurality of rotor laminations. The plurality of rotor laminations may have a central bore sized to receive the shaft, and the shaft may have a laminated portion that extends throughout the central bore. In other embodiments, the plurality of rotor laminations may have a very small or no central bore, and the shaft may include first and second end pieces respectively attached on opposite sides of the plurality of rotor laminations. In some embodiments, the first and second end shaft pieces may be attached to the rotor laminations with a through bolt that passes through the rotor laminations via a central bore sized no larger than needed to receive the through bolt, allowing each of the rotor laminations to have a larger laminated surface area. Methods of assembling a rotor are also provided, as are other aspects.

Abstract: A rotor comprises a rotor core comprising a rotational axis and a plurality of slots, a plurality of rotor bars inserted in the plurality of slots, and a plurality of holders arranged around a rotational axis of the rotor. Each holder comprises an insertion groove configured to receive and engage with an end of one of the plurality of rotor bars. An end of another rotor bar among the plurality of rotor bars is interposed between and coupled to two immediately neighboring holders among the plurality of holders.